TEXTS FROM 1840
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1840 Ewer archive: B8400001 |
author name: Louis Huart and Charles Philippon, edit. text title: "Daguerre" publication title: Galerie de la Presse, de la Littérature et des Beaux-Arts notes: Included in the volume is this biographical text of Daguerre, accompanied by a full-page lithograph portrait. (Original French language text.) keywords: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre |
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4 January 1840 Feuilleton du Journal de la Librairie (Paris) Ewer archive: P8400014 |
text title: "Décisions Judiciaires en Matière de Librairie" notes: A summary of a lawsuit brought by Giraldon against Alphonse Giroux regarding the issuance of Daguerre’s instructional manual. keywords: Giraldon, Alphonse Giroux, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre |
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15 January 1840 Alexander’s Weekly Messenger (Philadelphia) Ewer archive: P8400008 |
author name: Edgar Allan Poe text title: "The Daguerreotype" notes: A description of the new art, marveling at its "supremeness of its perfection." keywords: Edgar Allan Poe |
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February 1840 Knickerbocker (New York) Ewer archive: P8400010 |
text title: "The Daguerreotype" notes: A very brief article regarding Gouraud's exhibition of daguerreotypes and lectures in New York. keywords: François Gouraud, François Fauvel-Gouraud, Francois Gouraud, Francis Fauvel-Gouraud |
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8 February 1840 Albion (New York) Ewer archive: N8400001 |
text title: "Daguerreotype" notes: A notice by François Gouraud regarding his soon-closing lectures and exhibition in New York. keywords: François Gouraud, François Fauvel-Gouraud, Francois Gouraud, Francis Fauvel-Gouraud |
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26 February 1840 (manuscript transcription) Ewer archive: M8400001 |
author name: Thomas Cole notes: A few comments by this american artist regarding the daguerreotype. keywords: Thomas Cole, William Althorpe Adams |
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March 1840 Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal Ewer archive: P8400011 |
author name: Andrew Fyfe text title: "On Daguerreotype" notes: A technical discussion of the daguerreotype. keywords: Andrew Fyfe |
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March 1840 Southern Literary Messenger Ewer archive: P8400007 |
author name: Nugator (St. Leger Landon Carter) text title: "Pictures by the Sun" notes: Perhaps the first use of the daguerreotype as a metaphor in American prose. keywords: St. Leger Landon Carter, Nugator |
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4 March 1840 (manuscript) Ewer archive: S8400002 |
author name: François Fauvel Gouraud notes: The invitation issued by François Gouraud for a private showing in Boston of the daguerreotypes brought with him from France. keywords: François Gouraud, François Fauvel-Gouraud, Francois Gouraud, Francis Fauvel-Gouraud, Lemuel Shaw, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Daniel Treadwell, Edward Everett |
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9 March 1840 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.) Ewer archive: N8400003 |
notes: A notice of exhibition of daguerreotypes and lectures explaining the process. keywords: David G. Seixas |
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17 March 1840 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.) Ewer archive: N8400004 |
text title: "Daguerreotype" notes: A notice (dated 14 March 1840) discussing the daguerreotypes and lectures of Seixas. keywords: David G. Seixas |
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26 March 1840 Boston Daily Advertiser and Patriot Ewer archive: N8400002 |
author name: François Gouraud text title: "Manner of Making Portraits by the Daguerreotype" notes: An important article by François Gouraud providing some historical background and his methods of daguerreian portraiture. This text was subsequently incorporated in his pamphlet manual. (See F8400001) keywords: François Gouraud, François Jean-Baptiste Fauvel-Gouraud, Francois Gouraud, Francis Fauvel-Gouraud |
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1840 (after March 26) Ewer archive: F8400001 |
author name: Françcois Fauvel-Gouraud title: Description of the Daguerreotype Process, or a Summary of M. Gouraud’s Public Lectures, according to the Principles of M. Daguerreotype. With a Description of a Provisory Method for Taking Human Portraits notes: Perhaps the first stand-alone manual published in America. The historical narrative regarding daguerreian portraiture is especially informative. keywords: François Gouraud, François Jean-Baptiste Fauvel-Gouraud, Francois Gouraud, Francis Fauvel-Gouraud |
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April 1840 Godey's Lady's Magazine Ewer archive: P8400002 |
notes: a brief notice regarding the excellence of the daguereotypes being made by Robert Cornelius, and a reference to something of his personal life. keywords: Robert Cornelius, François Gouraud, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre |
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11 April 1840 (manuscript) Ewer archive: S8400001 |
author name: George Fuller notes: A letter from George Fuller to his father, Aaron Fuller, in which he discusses the purchased of apparatus from François Gouraud with a view to starting a daguerreotype portrait business. keywords: George Fuller, François Gouraud |
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24 April 1840 Ewer archive: B8640002 |
notes: An extract of a speech by Samuel F. B. Morse at the National Academy of Design, 24 April 1840, (as transcribed in the 1864 text by Marcus A. Root, The Camera and the Pencil).
keywords: Samuel F. B. Morse |
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July 1840 American Repertory (New York) Ewer archive: P8400013 |
author name: John W. Draper text title: "Remarks on the Daguerreotype" notes: A paper by John W. Draper describing various experiments and observations of the of daguerreotype process. keywords: John William Draper |
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22 August 1840 Literary Gazette (London) Ewer archive: P8400005 |
notes: A brief text regarding Hippolyte Fizeau and his use of gold chloride to strengthen and tone the daguerreotype image. keywords: Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, gold chloride, chlorure of gold |
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22 August 1840 Literary Gazette (London) Ewer archive: P8400005 |
notes: A brief text regarding Hippolyte Fizeau and his use of gold chloride to strengthen and tone the daguerreotype image. keywords: Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, gold chloride, chlorure of gold |
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September 1840 Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science Ewer archive: P8400001 |
author name: John W. Draper text title: "On the Process of Daguerreotype, and its application to taking Portraits from the Life" notes: A detailed account of Draper's experiments, findings, processes, and his methods of taking portraits. keywords: John William Draper, Alexander S. Wolcott, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, John Herschel, John T. Towson |
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5 September 1840 Literary Gazette (London) Ewer archive: P8400006 |
notes: A text of some length describing Berres' success in modifying a daguerreotype for use as a printing plate. keywords: Joseph Berres, Alfred Donné |
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7 November 1840 New-York Mirror Ewer archive: P8400003 |
text title: "Drawing and the Daguerréotype" notes: A brief notice of Madame Guillet's use of daguerreotypes as the basis for painted portrait miniatures. keywords: Madame Guillet |
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12 December 1840 Literary Gazette (London) Ewer archive: P8400004 |
author name: John F. Goddard text title: "Valuable Improvement in Daguerréotype" notes: The first published account of the use of bromine to accelerate the sensitivity of the daguerreotype plate. keywords: John F. Goddard, bromine of iodine, bromine |
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15 December 1840 Art-Union (London) Ewer archive: P8400015 |
author name: "An Amateur" text title: "The Daguerreotype" notes: An informative account of an amateur's experience with the daguerreotype process. keywords: “An Amateur”, Alfred Donné |